Also known as: yaun durbalta · यौन दुर्बलता · कमजोरी (यौन) · sexual debility
Food Remedies
Main remedy
The classical vajikarana course: ashwagandha, safed musli and gokshura with milk and ghee, taken steadily for two to three months alongside proper sleep.
½–1 tsp ashwagandha powder in a cup of warm milk with a little ghee at night, taken steadily for eight weeks.
Traditional
CautionIf you take thyroid medicine, do not take ashwagandha without asking your doctor — it raises thyroid hormone and can throw the dose off. Not in pregnancy. Its effect adds to sleeping tablets and sedatives. Stop it two weeks before surgery.
सफेद मूसली · Safed musli
½ tsp safed musli powder in warm milk once at night; classically taken with a little mishri.
Traditional
गोखरू · Gokhru
½ tsp gokshura powder in warm water or milk twice a day, after food.
Traditional
बादाम · Almonds
7 badam soaked overnight, peeled and ground into warm milk with a pinch of saffron, each morning.
Traditional
खजूर · Dates
Three khajoor soaked overnight in milk, eaten in the morning with the milk.
Traditional
दूध · Milk
A cup of warm cow milk at night with a pinch of cardamom — the classical anupana for all vitality herbs.
Traditional
घी · Ghee
1 tsp cow ghee in warm milk at night; it carries the herbs into the deeper tissues.
Traditional
तिल · Sesame
A tablespoon of black sesame ground with jaggery into a small ladoo, one each morning through the cold months.
Traditional
केसर · Saffron
Two or three strands of kesar soaked in a spoon of warm milk, taken at night — a very small quantity is enough.
Traditional
On this page Documented — There are human studies behind this ingredient for this particular complaint. Traditional — Carried by tradition and experience; modern evidence for this particular complaint is limited.
All of this is what others have found — tradition, shared experience and the studies done so far. It is not advice given to any one person. Before changing your diet, and especially if you take any medicine, ask your dietician or doctor.
Naturopathy
Cold hip bath and Ashwini mudra daily; Surya Namaskar twelve rounds.
Sleep before ten; oil massage before bathing.
Classical Formulations
चंद्रप्रभा वटी · Chandraprabha Vati
Dose: 2 tablets (500 mg) · Warm water or milk twice daily
Urinary disorders, diabetes with weakness, low back ache, reproductive weakness in both sexes, general debility.
अश्वगंधारिष्ट · Ashwagandharishta
Dose: 15–30 ml · Equal warm water, twice daily after food
Nervous exhaustion, insomnia, low weight, weakness after illness, sexual debility, anxiety.
Bhojanveda
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